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Attendance and active participation are expected of every student. Grades will be based on class participation, short presentation and a written assignment.

This course serves as an introduction to art projects and forms of artistic activity centered around contemporary art and architecture, that developed in various locations around Japan beginning in the last two decades of 20th century.
We will review art projects, that engage deeply with contemporary society, evolving in relation to the social conditions of a particular time and place. These activities generate new artistic and social contexts by seeding new contact points and social connections outside of pre-existing ones.
Selected topics are intended to develop skills of close looking, critical thinking and improve research skills. Public engagement, discourse in class and writing about visual arts will be excercised.

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Alberro, Alexander and Sabeth Buchmann. eds. Art after Conceptual Art. Cambridge, MH: MIT Press, 2006. (EN)
Elliott David. Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, Yale University Press, 2011. (EN)
Favell, Adrian. Before and After Superflat: A Short History of Japanese Contemporary Art 1990- 2011. Hong Kong: Blue Kingfisher, 2012. (EN)
Fraser, Karen M. “Representation and Identity.” In Photography and Japan. London: Reaktion Books, 2011. 37-86. (EN)
Chong, Doryun, et al. From Postwar to Postmodern, Art in Japan 1945-1989: Primary Documents. New York: Museum of Modern Art; Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. (EN)
Ishiuchi, Miyako. Ishiuchi Miyako - Mother's 2000-2005: Traces of the Future, Kyoto: Tankosha, 2005. (EN)
Johnson, Mark. The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. (EN)
Kastner, Jeffrey and Brian Wallis, eds., Land and Environmental Art, London: Phaidon (New, Abridged Edition), 2010. (EN)
Okabe, Masao and Chihiro Minato (ed.), Is There a Future for Our Past?: The Dark Face of the Light, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2007. (EN)
Rawlings, Ashley. Art Space Tokyo, Chin Music Press, 2008; Pre/Post Books, 2010. (EN)
Roberson, James E. and Suzuki, Nobue. Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Japan, Dislocating the Salaryman Doxa, Routledge, 2003. (EN)
Yoshimoto, Midori. “Performing the Self: Yayoi Kusama and Her Ever-Expanding Universe.” In Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists in New York. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 45-78. (EN)